BIRD STRIKE

[Gibbmusic]

What plane are you using? It sounds like something is going amuck with either autopilot or the plane itself. Make sure something
screwy isin't happening with the plane like the speedbrake being deployed or flaps being deployed.

Gibbmusic

[pagir]

martinbc wrote:
I have tried to do a flight from Washington Dulles to Heathrow several times.....all goes well until the aircraft goes over 18000 ft.. then for
some reason it pitches up and stalls.....I have tried several combinations .....fly straight to 45000, which is below its max flight level.....go to
11000....increase to max speed, then climb.....change loading of cargo...no cargo...fuel....but still with the same results....

any ideas?

Some infos are missing for an accurate answer (like: which plane, how was the weather, what is your climbing rate, are you on
autopilote), but...

If you're on autopilot, you should decrease your climb rate. You can't maintain the same climb rate until your cruise altitude, since your
plane won't behave the same way in high altitude...

Anyway, you should have opened a new topic in the FS2004 general forum, since I don't think it's FsP related...

Pagir

[martinbc]

747-400 ....was the plane...i'll try changing the climb rate...see if that helps...

[IanP]

I had a few sticky situations in the Dreamfleet Bonanza where FSV vertical winds would try and push me down and the autopilot's response was to haul
up the nose until clear of the downdraught... Or, far more likely, until the aircraft stalled. I learned to have a quick hand on the autopilot
disconnect button and forward on the yoke.

I also had my first failure since my first landing in a what-was-left-of-a-B737 over the CA warzone in the demo, last weekend, as well - the flaps got
stuck on final so I couldn't retract them. Er... At that point, I had no intention of doing so!

I declared an emergency (and got a PAN call instead of a MAYDAY - superb!), but just carried on as normal to land. I think the co-pilot's complaint
that the flaps were stuck was more worrying to the passengers than the approach and landing... Although the equipment sitting at the end of the runway
would have done their stress levels no good had it really been there.

Anyway. That got me promoted early to C3 and I now have a Piper Navajo, a Piper Seneca V and a Cessna 421C Golden Eagle to go with the light singles.
I've done quick-and-dirty ini files for the Seneca and Navajo, if anyone would like to do some testing for me? If they work, I'll send them in for
anyone else interested to use.

Cheers,

Ian P.

[martinbc]

changing the climb rate about 18000 fixed the problem....I dropped the rate to 900ft instead of 1800....flight went smoothly for the first time...